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Quickstart: Connect Your AI Assistant

Prerequisites

Section titled “Prerequisites”

Claude Desktop

Section titled “Claude Desktop”

Claude Desktop supports MCP servers with OAuth. Add Trove to your config file at ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json on macOS:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "trove": {
      "type": "streamable-http",
      "url": "https://api.ontrove.sh/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop handles OAuth automatically. On first use, it opens a browser window for Clerk authentication.

Restart Claude Desktop after saving the config.

Cursor

Section titled “Cursor”

Add Trove via Cursor Settings > MCP Servers with the same configuration:

  • Type: streamable-http
  • URL: https://api.ontrove.sh/mcp

Verify It Works

Section titled “Verify It Works”

Ask Claude: “What connectors do I have in Trove?”

It should call trove_list_connectors and return your configured data sources. If you haven’t set up any connectors yet, it returns an empty list.

What You Can Do

Section titled “What You Can Do”
PromptMCP Tool
”Search my Trove for articles about distributed systems”trove_search
”What’s new in my knowledge base?”trove_recent
”Save this conversation to Trove”trove_save
”Show me everything from my Readwise”trove_get_connector
”Help me discover something interesting”trove_discover
”Get the full text of that article”trove_get_document
”List all my connectors”trove_list_connectors

Troubleshooting

Section titled “Troubleshooting”

Tools not appearing in Claude/Cursor Restart the client after saving the config file. MCP servers are loaded at startup.

Authentication failed Your token has expired. Re-authenticate by following the browser prompt when the client reconnects.

Session expired MCP sessions last 1 hour. Your client re-initializes automatically when the session expires. No action needed.

Next Steps

Section titled “Next Steps”